{"id":7481,"date":"2015-08-11T15:21:23","date_gmt":"2015-08-11T14:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goteamfiction.com\/?p=7481"},"modified":"2015-08-11T15:31:29","modified_gmt":"2015-08-11T14:31:29","slug":"7481","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goteamfiction.com\/index.php\/2015\/08\/11\/7481\/","title":{"rendered":"Persephone Lies Dreaming. 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Title: Title: Persephone Lies Dreaming,<\/strong> Book 1<br \/>\n<strong>Author: Samsmom<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Summary:<\/strong> Angelus loves Cordelia. To Death.<br \/>\n<strong>Rating:<\/strong> R for very dark imagery.<br \/>\n<strong>Disclaimer:<\/strong> Not mine, just playing<br \/>\n<strong>Notes:<\/strong> Takes place in the aftermath of my fic Collatoral Lover, AU of BtVS s2 after Killed By Death.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Two<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He\u2019s cool on her back, arm draped over her shoulder so she can watch the moonshine turn his skin white like milk.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She\u2019s lying in a grave with him, watched as he dug it with his bare hands, smiling at her with those sharp teeth the whole time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Her own monster.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He\u2019s wound white orchids in her hair, wrapped them around her wrist and threaded their stalks through her fingers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He\u2019s says they\u2019re a symbol of her beauty.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Above her eyes, the discarded leftovers lie soaking in the sprinklers, drowning in water and dirt while she watches.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><i>do you like them?<\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She nods because she cannot speak.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There are orchid petals in her mouth, tangling her tongue.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">~~<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When the dawn comes, so do the estate workers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They find her in the garden, with the roses.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">~~<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The morning sun shines down on the slayer\u2019s head, turning her hair to spun gold.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She looks up when Xander approaches.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cHow\u2019s Cordelia?\u201d She asks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cAlive. Barely.\u201d Xander\u2019s hatred is like a living thing in his eyes. \u201cThey say she\u2019s been cutting herself. It\u2019s the only way they can explain the blood loss.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cHe must have been \u2013 it must have been occurring for a number of weeks.\u201d Giles said, slipping his glasses back on.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cYou need to kill him, Buffy.\u201d Xander says it again, as if to remind her of her duty.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI will.\u201d She says.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She shuts her anguish up in a chamber far in the back of her heart, and reconciles herself to the inevitable.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">~<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/goteamfiction.com\/index.php\/2015\/08\/11\/in-her-hands-six-seeds-of-the-pomegranate-3\/\">In Her Hands, Six Seeds of the Pomegranate<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: Title: Persephone Lies Dreaming, Book 1 Author: Samsmom Summary: Angelus loves Cordelia. 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